Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture cricket cage to whom another of them

to whom another of them was inscribed as a gift in 1872

Illinois company were thoughtful and smart

The blue paint has little green and a little gray in it

with a good number of years on it for sure

watercolor and gouache I believe

Antique Folk Art Watercolor and Silk Embroidery on Silk Mourning Picture cricket cage to whom another of themThis charmer! Like a naive schoolgirl drawing rendered in silk embroidery, except for watercolor used for the girls face and pale blue sky behind her. To my eye and sensibilities just wonderful, this blushing girl in her fabulous striped dress (with little blue shoe peeking out) bent forward and looking quite contemplative, her hat in her lap and flowering sprig in the other, and with just a partial view of an urn in front of her. That, along with